Kraven the Hunter Review 🔴 P B P ✔
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As a boy, Sergei and his half-brother Demetri (Fred Hechinger) live in fear of their Russian mobster dad Nikolai (Russell Crowe), who espouses the importance of strength and cliché masculinity in the face of life’s challenges by taking his boys on a hunting trip to Ghana after a family tragedy. It’s here that young Sergei’s (Levi Miller) empathy for animals is first demonstrated, as his hesitation to participate in his father’s hunt sets off a bizarre sequence of events that grant him the speed of a lion, the strength of a lion, the eyes of a lion, and the ability to command the animal kingdom of a lion – a transformation illustrated with a cheap-looking vision quest full of irrelevant runes superimposed over stock nature footage. Remember when Nightwolf teaches Liu Kang about Animalities in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation? That’s the vibe. Kraven the Hunter’s computer-generated animal allies don’t look much better – they don’t need to look as good as the wildlife in the upcoming Mufasa: The Lion King to get the point across, but their soulless eyes and janky animation are constant distractions.
That’s also true in the present-day storyline. The prison-escape opener hints that maybe Sergei’s abilities could open the door for some good ol’ cinematic savagery in the action scenes, though that hope is short-lived. He jumps and slides around, slashing throats and scaling walls with ease. He even bites one poacher’s nose off and spits it at another! Good clean fun, the way the Action Movie Gods intended! Taylor-Johnson is a capable performer when it comes to the very physical one-on-one brawls, but Kraven the Hunter relies far too heavily on the low-end (by comic book movie standards) super strength of Sergei – which we’ve seen too many examples of to be impressed by – and bafflingly less so on his way more interesting power to commune with animals (a modulation of the character’s comics-based skill at taming them). It seems contrary to that idea that Sergei only ever uses animals as tools in fights, seldom watching their backs or displaying any care for their well-being which, again, is supposed to be this movie’s big twist on the character.